4 Awesome Web-based Twitter Clients

There are a great number of ways a person can tweet nowadays, whether it’s from the original website, through your iPhone or your desktop app, the competition is fierce. From that competition comes innovation, and Twitter has its own fair share of innovative clients that are available on the web.

Each client has a its own niche and reasons for why its special…

Brizzly – simplicity rules

The trendy-chique Client

Brizzly is an interesting client in that it doesn’t feel pretentiously high-tech, it’s just more about enjoying your Twitter rather that drowning in statistics and management.

Where it shines:

• Embedding photos and videos saving you the hassle of opening a thousand tabs while checking your Twitter.
• It extends shortened URLs so it’s no longer a guessing game of whether the link is NSFW.
• You can “silence” certain users by selecting to mute them, allowing to side-step the embarrassment of unfollowing them.
• You can have up to 4 profiles on it.

Where it doesn’t:

• You can only manage one account at a time.
• It doesn’t automatically update your feed, it only notifies you to refresh it.

Conclusion:

This is certainly the app for people who use Twitter for fun and not for power users.

Great for: Light users, getting teens to like Twitter.

Hootsuite – a power user’s tool

The slient for Social Media junkies

If you can appreciate the utility of an electric screw driver over its traditional cousin, you will appreciate Hootsuite.

Where it shines:

• Managing multiple Twitter profiles from a single interface.
• Auto-tweeting blog posts, and scheduling Tweets.
• Posting a single Tweet through multiple profiles.
• Statistics for your shortened URLs, allowing you to track clicks among other things.

Where it doesn’t:

• Too much going on; it is confusing. Sometimes less is more.

Conclusion:

This is a heavy application, and certainly more enterprise centric providing you with a command console worthy of a marketing department HQ. If you have many Twitter accounts to manage or you are a star and would like to manage the accounts of your Twitter account ghost writers this is the tool to use.

Great for: Heavy users, and lazy Twitter stars.

Br.st – Twitter Plus!

The File-sharers' client

People who enjoy modding their cars (or computers) can never go back to using the plain old vanilla, if it’s not spiked it’s not alright. This is what Br.st does to your Twitter page; it takes it and kicks it up a notch.

Where it shines:

• It is familiar since it uses your Twitter page setup; it even uses your background.
• Manages your links, images and files in a gallery.
• You can use it to share files as well as images and videos, song of the day anyone?
• Conversation tracking allowing you to follow conversations easily.
• Inline showing of images and playing of videos.

Where it doesn’t:

• It can be a bit slow.

Conclusion:

This is the only Twitter client I know of that allows you to share files which is a great utility! On top of that, it is great for the casual user of Twitter.

Great for: Casual users, and file sharers and seeders.

Seesmic – if you like Tweetdeck, you’ll love it!

The traditionalist Client

While famous for its desktop app, its online cousin is certainly an excellent client. The client takes a no thrill approach and if you like your Tweetdeck, you will feel, ironically, right at home.

Where it shines:

• Multi-column or single column interface.
• Contact management.
• Simple menu design.

Where it doesn’t:

• Nothing to write home about.
• No power tools.

Conclusion:

If you would like to stay with something that looks familiar, doesn’t differ that much from your desktop app while not really caring about any bells and whistles, this would be the perfect client for you.  If you happen to want anything else. look elsewhere.

Great for: Conservatives, Teabaggers, and those who don’t like change.

Now it’s your turn: What’s your pick?